Victoria Dougherty

I have attended other seminars, but this one is very different. In this one you don’t only listen, but practice. I can immediately apply what I learned in my village church planting work.

Building and maintaining good relationship is what ministry is all about. This training helps me to do this, with many practical tools. 

I wished I had this before. I had stage fear and often I did not take initiatives because of fear. That fear is gone. 

I appreciated the fact all trainers are mission leaders with experience. It helped me especially in communication and management.

After 21 years of service in OM, this is the first time I had such a beautiful training. 

I came to the training as a bud and now I am a flower. Tomorrow I will be a fragrance to God

This training has clarified vision for the future and has given me the tools that I need to make this a reality. The professionalism coupled with the affirmation led to an environment where for the first time I felt as confident as I often try to make people think I am. Thank you for unlocking so many doors! 

Everyone in leadership should go through this training.

The LMC has provided me with the backbone for various parts of my ministry. This training is powerful and relevant. I can’t wait to apply these principles to my ministry.

I don’t remember ever having had two weeks of more intensive training, and I don’t believe I’ve ever had two weeks of training that excited me more

his course contains so much that I would have loved to have received as a young leader in Iran, India and Bangladesh. We count it a privilege to be involved in this mentoring process of ploughing back some of what God put into us.

For me this course has been a life changing experience. I must admit that I have attended many other leadership courses and this one is the top of the notch. I mean it is the best one I have ever attended so far.  I can sum it up by saying: Skill empowerment. By that I mean Communication Skills, Relationship Skills, Management Skills, Life Management Skills, Ministry Skills, Training Skills, Creative Thinking & Decision Making Skills and Public Relations. I could have not have asked for any more than these.   When I returned from Brisbane, we were just finishing our Orientation. I was asked to do my final session on Communication between office and missionaries on the field or the sending churches and supporters. One skill that I learnt was in the area of How to Lead a Workshop. Without delay I used the toolkit on how to lead workshop. My topic was on How to have good communication between the OM office and the missionaries on the field. Guess what? I applied the skills I acquired at the LMC on How to lead Workshop. It really worked. I was able to draw a lot of feed back from the team rather then me giving all the answers.  The next day we had a farewell meal for all the trainees and again I was able to give my talk using the Modular speaking technique. Again it worked very well. Later my wife told me that my way of presentation upfront really improved.

The combination of the level of spiritual maturity of the Christian leaders who give this training, with the professionalism in their training skills and the fact that different missions work together in this course is unique in the world. 

It’s been a real delight to see the growth and development of LMC and to hear testimonies now from scores of people who have been thoroughly blessed and really helped by their attendance at these training events. I have participated in the very first course that OM was involved in, which was held in Zaventem in 1995. I do remember still today some of the sessions, particularly that David Cummings gave at that time.

The LMC could be called: “What I should have learned in seminary, but no one ever told me.” I walk away from this not only with knowledge about what I should do, but knowing how to do it.

This course has given effective tools to help me in personal life, family life and ministry. I am grateful for them and I know my family and peers will be grateful too.

I have been given a compass so that I can find my direction in life.

I would have loved to receive these tools 25 years ago. Absolutely the most practical seminar I have ever taken.

The best two weeks I have spent in a conference.

As I go back to Asia I will take on a new job that is much bigger than I am, but I now feel prepared!

Billy Graham called the CMA the best kept secret in the missionary world. I want to call the Leadership Matters Course the best kept secret in the world of missionary training.

The course presented important topics for developing essential leadership skills. The emphasis on mastering skills made this the best course I have ever attended on leadership. I will highly recommend this to missionaries in Latin America.

Invaluable, priceless!

Because it is taught in such a practical manner, I will integrate this course immediately into my form of thinking and working. It will just be a part of who I am for many years to come.

This course has inspired me to dream big for my ministry.

A tremendous asset to anyone who wants to shape their leadership skills and pick up some new tools to enhance their abilities.

This course has fundamentally changed my approach to my ministry management perceptions and has opened many areas that I didn’t pay attention to before.

This course is well conceived, cleverly put together and taught with both godliness and excellence. I would recommend it to anyone!

Nobody should be allowed in a Christian leadership position without this training. OM should have this course once every year!

Life changing

Perhaps two weeks away from your family, jobs and ministry seems formidable, but it a substantial investment in your life-long learning process and continues to give dividends.

There are many practical ways this course can be implemented in our member care ministry.

As a team leader I would say that this course is a must! I know that I am more equipped and ready to achieve God’s desired results in my life

These concepts and skills will be permeating in my heart and mind for years to come.

LMC has been the most practical leadership and ministry training that I have taken part in over the past twenty years. It has provided us with some very concrete and practical tools for forming our team in Bulgaria. I think it will be giving dividends in Bulgaria for years to come.

I will be able to immediately begin applying a number of these new skills in my life and ministry.

The comprehensiveness of this course is vast, though it always provides practical and profound ways to implement the skills and traits in everyday life and ministry.

You trainers walked along side us. I am impressed that you were there every day, even when you didn’t have sessions. You didn’t have us do anything that you had not modelled first!

This course has shown me that God can use me as a leader. I go home with more confidence, trust, enthusiasm, and peace of mind than I have ever had in my life.

LMC has become a milestone in my life. I highly recommend this training to all people in any kind of leadership position.

The LMC gave language to so many things that I had never clearly identified before. I’m convinced of its value and I am moving from being a student to an advocate of the course!

Thank you for modeling and showing true team teaching, building community, and a way of learning for change. I have heard and dreamed of these concepts, but never seen it demonstrated and modeled as well as you have done in the LMC.

I arrived at this course with heavy responsibilities and burdens with my present time commitments, but as the course progressed, I learned very quickly that this would be a most beneficial experience for my ministry.

LMC is a well-rounded tool chest of ideas and practical “how to” to be used in every aspect of life and ministry.

LMC is impactful both personally and professionally. It is practical, Biblical, and applicable in more ways than I can count.

The course presents an integrated concept of leadership. Whereas I may have come across much of the material before in a scattered way, this course brings it all together in a way that demands attention and a response. It will be valuable to me as I spend further quality time on it and integrate it into life and ministry.

This LMC course has been a catalyst for me, showing me the roots of excellent leadership and motivating me to step up to new challenges, especially in the areas of public relations, management and communication skills. Each Christian leader needs to experiment this kind of training.

I lead the Global Action Leadership Training on the Doulos with 34 participants. Again and again I thank God for the LMC that I attended and where I learned so much. After the LMC I had more confidence and a clearer picture of the Global Action Leadership Training I am responsible for. In addition I could speak in leadership conferences for local future leaders!

I should have come to LMC 20 years ago!

Building up leaders with integrity of heart and skillful hands

LMC brings together the head and heart of leadership in a practical, but in-depth and hands on experience. I loved learning in community and through relationship, while being guided well through the learning process by a team of excellent trainers. I walk away feeling empowered and equipped to lead, invest and develop my team.

I feel like God has used LMC to give me clarity of purpose and a bead on Jeff in Francefuture career steps.

We have been immensely blessed by the two weeks of the Leadership Matters Course, one of the best trainings we ever attended. The subjects are condensed synergistic gleanings of effective and proven methods of godly principles that can be applied easily in life. The simplicity in which it is taught, the group exercises, role plays and assignments ingrained into your life will not only impact you, your church and community, ministry, people who come in your life, but will surely alter your core values, transform your world view into a new paradigm.

This is the best comprehensive training available out there for mission workers that is practical skills-driven and relationship-based.

The LMC is an incredibly engaging training. Our leaders at Field DAN_9585Director level walked away with a common language and set of tools in a toolbox that we can immediately put into practice.

I’m leaving this course feeling affirmed in my calling and work and better equipped to handle our day-to-day ministry.

While I had a certain idea of what I hoped to get out of LMC when I DAN_9605came, I was amazed how God encouraged growth in me in areas I wasn’t even interested in thinking about before.

This is the best leadership course I have ever done. I have been encouraged, valued, stretched and empowered.

This training has been the best I ever received. It gave me a toolbox to help me in all areas of life and ministry.